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The dead bodies of the Dalton Gang following their demise in the shootout during the 1892 Coffeyville bank robbery.

Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.

A 1934 Finnish police photo of Aarne Kauhanen. During the Continuation War, he was in charge of monitoring foreigners. Kauhanen used his position to torture refugees, especially Jews. He fled to Venezuela after the war, only to later be recognized and killed by one of his victims there .

‘Racism tears Britain apart.’ – 2002 NUS/UJS Poster

Japanese high school students playing mahjong and injecting methamphetamine (Hiropon, ヒロポン) (ca. 1950)